Industrial Controls & Automation Engineer

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Full Time Professionals Douglassville, PA, US

2 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $80,000.00 To $ Annually

At American Crane & Equipment Corporation (ACECO), we are looking for Electrical Engineers with strong industrial controls and automation experience – particularly professionals who have programmed, commissioned, or supported automated equipment using Beckhoff Structured Text or comparable IEC 61131-3 programming platforms.

Direct overhead-crane experience is valuable, but it is not the only path into this role.

We are especially interested in engineers from industries that design, build, integrate, or support:

• Conveyor and sortation systems
• Automated material-handling equipment
• Distribution and fulfillment centers
• Packaging and processing machinery
• Robotics and motion-control systems
• Warehouse automation
• Manufacturing automation
• Systems integration
• Heavy industrial equipment

If you have designed controls for equipment that moves, positions, lifts, transfers, sequences, or automates material, your experience may translate directly to our work.

This is not a purely theoretical engineering position. Your controls logic, electrical designs, and troubleshooting decisions will support equipment that is manufactured, tested, installed, and operated in real industrial environments.

You will not get lost here. Your work will be seen, and it will matter.

This is a hands-on industrial electrical engineering and controls role focused on custom crane, hoist, motion-control, and automated material-handling systems.

You will work across the full equipment lifecycle from electrical design and controls programming through manufacturing support, testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, and field performance.

Depending on experience, you may support projects under mentorship or independently own the electrical and controls scope for complex engineered systems.

This role requires more than creating drawings. Success depends on understanding how hardware, software, motors, drives, sensors, safety systems, and mechanical equipment work together as one operating system.

• Enjoy programming and troubleshooting real industrial equipment
• Can connect controls logic to physical machine behavior
• Take ownership of technical decisions and system performance
• Are comfortable working across electrical design, software, manufacturing, and testing
• Enjoy custom-engineered projects rather than repetitive product work
• Can communicate effectively with engineers, technicians, electricians, manufacturing employees, and customers
• Want your designs to be built, tested, and used

• Prefer software development with little interaction with physical equipment
• Want a highly segmented role limited to one narrow engineering task
• Avoid hands-on troubleshooting or manufacturing-floor involvement
• Prefer repetitive controls projects with limited customization
• Do not want accountability for how the completed system performs

• Learn ACECO electrical standards, controls architecture, products, and engineering workflows
• Support electrical schematics, hardware selection, software documentation, and system testing
• Develop familiarity with PLCs, VFDs, motor controls, sensors, safety circuits, and crane operating sequences
• Build working relationships with Electrical…